Sidewalk Stories
Sidewalk Stories is a Boston Research Center (BRC) project that hopes to promote a greater understanding of Boston’s spatial, environmental, and cultural history. Sidewalk Stories invites neighborliness and community joy by encouraging passersby to experience their neighborhoods as sites of living memory, unique histories, and diverse perspectives.
Sidewalk Stories is a Mellon-Grant funded project led by the Boston Research Center. The project was developed in partnership with Hola Cultura, Zumix, Maverick Landing Community Services, and the East Boston Social Centers.
Explore East Boston’s History of Community Activism
Deepen your understanding of East Boston’s community, and strengthen your sense of neighborhood belonging, by listening to firsthand accounts and memories of past and present East Boston residents. Browse the full Sidewalk Stories Collection.
In August 2023, ZUMIX Teen Bryan Martinez interviewed Deysi Gutierrez, the then-manager of Greg’s Little Free Pantry located outside of Channel Fish in East Boston. This audio-visual experience is narrated by Bryan Martinex and features photos and live footage from East Boston. Available with English captions and Spanish captions.
“Greg’s Little Free Pantry” produced by ZUMIX Radio
At the intersection of East Eagle Street and Chelsea streets in East Boston, sits a little oasis– an urban farm complete with greenhouse, a henhouse with chickens, and Greg’s Little Free Pantry. Greg’s Pantry gives out food and books to the community, and has become a hub for a pop-up neighborhood freecycle.
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Greg's Little Free Pantry (English captions)
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Did you know that East Boston has chickens? Deysi Gutierrez moved to East Boston when she was seven from El Salvador. Years later, she wrote a petition to keep the chickens on the corner in front of Channel Fish. When the world was facing the first months of the Covid pandemic, Deysi was thinking about creating a place were neighbors could offer what they had, or take what they needed. That was the beginning of Greg's Little Free Pantry. This is its story. Produced by Bryan Martinez in August 2023.
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Sidewalk Stories is a Boston Research Center (BRC) project endeavoring to promote a greater understanding of East Boston's spatial and environmental history. In partnership with Zumix, Maverick Landing Community Services, and the East Boston Social Centers, the BRC aims to install signs with text, a picture, and a QR code to encourage neighborhood passers-by to find out more about the history of a particular location. Once scanned, the QR code will lead to a micro history and links to further resources. This ongoing project piloted in 2024 with an audio story produced by Zumix teens.
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Hola Cultura remixed existing audios and oral histories of the East Boston Greenway Council—publicly-available in the Northeastern University Digital Repository Service. Hola Cultura’s three-part audio series focuses on East Boston’s long history of community activism, and truly makes the voices of Eastie residents shine!
“Everybody Wants a Piece of East Boston” produced by Hola Cultura
“Everybody wants a piece of East Boston,” Eva Biscegli observed in an oral history interview recorded in the late 1990s. Decades later, as developers move in, those words still ring true…
Speakers: Eva Biscegli, Renée Loth, Chris Marchi, Liliana Tirado Arteaga, Kannan Thiruvengadam
“A Neighborhood Under Siege” produced by Hola Cultura
Did you know East Boston might have been completely wiped off the map in the 1970s to make room for a larger airport?
Speakers: Renée Loth, Liliana Tirado Arteaga, Chris Marchi, Philip Giffee, Eva Biscegli, Kannan Thiruvengadam
“The Voice Above The Roar” produced by Hola Cultura
Longtime East Boston activist William Ferullo declared: “If something isn't running right, fix it.” Generations of East Boston activists have faced Eastie’s ongoing challenges, from gentrification threatening its immigrant character to climate change, with that same spirit.
Speakers: William Ferullo, Kannan Thiruvengadam, Liliana Tirado Arteaga, Philip Giffee, Renée Loth